Bill Maher: Donald Trump’s ‘racist,’ Clint is an…

Bill Maher has previously called businessman Donald Trump a racist for some of his criticism of President Barack Obama, and he was pressed on that claim by Larry King in an interview set to air Tuesday afternoon on Hulu.com.

“It depends on how you term racist. It’s funny how racism has evolved in America. One hundred fifty years ago, a racist was a guy who said, ‘Yes, I am going to be keeping my slaves.’ One hundred years ago, racism was Jim Crow, somebody who believes that blacks perhaps should not be allowed to vote but they’re not for going all the way back to slavery. To me, where racism is today, it’s denying that racism exists. That, to me, is very racist. If you ask people on Planet Tea Bag what the problem is racially in America, it’s probably reverse racism, Larry. That’s where the problem is, white people who cannot get a break because of all these affirmative action laws. They really believe that. So is Donald Trump a racist? Not an overt one. As he has said many times, ‘The black people love me.’ ‘The blacks love me.’ And, by the way, they love being called ‘the blacks,’ also. So he’s one of those racists who doesn’t know he’s a racist, but yes, he is.”

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King also used the sit-down to get Maher’s thoughts on other current events, including actor Clint Eastwood’s recent speech at the Republican National Convention.

“I liked his performance as a comedian. What I admired was a man who could get on stage with no teleprompter and just a chair as a prop and get big laughs for fifteen minutes, sort of off the cuff. That is not easy. I mean I’ve been a standup comedian for 30 years, I know what it’s like and I know what it’s like to bomb from my earlier days. For him to do it as a non-comedian in that setting with those limitations, I was very impressed. Now, the content of what he said shocked me because I did not know that Clint Eastwood was such a down the line, right-wing a—hole. I knew he was sort of conservative, you know. But I had no idea that he was such a typical teabagger, doesn’t know the facts, had everything all wrong, just this old white guy who feels the claw being plied off the lever of power.”

Donald Trump never earned his fortune. He like Mittens had a rich dad who left him the best real estate in NYC and he did what any kid does that does not deserve anything: he leveraged it to the hilt and dabbled in casinos and building built on ego and not uasbility. I for one am no fan of course. His dad was a very gentle,kind man and somehow this lab experiment gone bad was switched at birth with his real son. Trump is a complete and utter A-S_ole!

Eastwood was awesome. He's a conservative, but not a Neo-Con, as made apparent by his remarks about the war in Afghanistan. But his supposed "senility" has been overplayed by the left, who gets very defensive when they see a respected actor not fall in line with the rest of the Hollywood "progressives".

Dems were bitterly fighting the Civil Rights Act ....An Democratic Gov blocked the College for the black student ..... where were the racists in our history .... a Repub Pres was fighting against slavery

he bill came before the full Senate for debate on March 30, 1964 and the "Southern Bloc" of 18 southern Democratic Senators and one Republican Senator led by Richard Russell (D-GA) launched a filibuster to prevent its passage.[10] Said Russell: "We will resist to the bitter end any measure or any movement which would have a tendency to bring about social equality and intermingling and amalgamation of the races in our (Southern) states."[11] The most fervent opposition to the bill came from Senator Strom Thurmond (D-SC): "This so-called Civil Rights Proposals, which the President has sent to Capitol Hill for enactment into law, are unconstitutional, unnecessary, unwise and extend beyond the realm of reason. This is the worst civil-rights package ever presented to the Congress and is reminiscent of the Reconstruction proposals and actions of the radical Republican Congress."[12] After 54 days of filibuster, Senators Everett Dirksen (R-IL), Thomas Kuchel (R-CA), Hubert Humphrey (D-MN), and Mike Mansfield (D-MT) introduced a substitute bill that they hoped would attract enough Republican swing votes to end the filibuster. The compromise bill was weaker than the House version in regard to government power to regulate the conduct of private business, but it was not so weak as to cause the House to reconsider the legislation.[13] On the morning of June 10, 1964, Senator Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) completed a filibustering address that he had begun 14 hours and 13 minutes earlier opposing the legislation. Until then, the measure had occupied the Senate for 57 working days, including six Saturdays. A day earlier, Democratic Whip Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota, the bill's manager, concluded he had the 67 votes required at that time to end the debate and end the filibuster. With six wavering senators providing a four-vote victory margin, the final tally stood at 71 to 29. Never in history had the Senate been able to muster enough votes to cut off a filibuster on a civil rights bill. And only once in the 37 years since 1927 had it agreed to cloture for any measure.[14] Cloture in the Senate:[17] ? Democratic Party: 44–23 (66–34%) ? Republican Party: 27–6 (82–18%)

bill maher calling trump a racist is like trump receiving a badge of honor. now i am no trump fan. i wish his over the top bloviating on fox and friends would come to a sudden halt and stay that way. but the fact that maher uses trump while rambling on about "HIS" definition of racism tells us what we need to know:

Where is the politico story about how Maher mocked the Obama administrations Libyan...err misstatements? Where is any Politico story about Libya? I guess GOP Congressional leaders did not send a letter to the WH detailing several terrorist attacks in Libya leading up to the murder of our ambassador. Move along...

It's one thing to read history but it's another to understand it. The period to which you refer was the beginning of the great transformation of Southern Conservatives from the Democratic Party (Democrats because of the great betrayal by Lincoln) to the Republican Party, where they truly belonged. These were no Democrats as we understand today - they are ancestral Republicans.

You can ask a bunch of questions challenging WHY Politico is in the tank so deep for Obama....a waste of time. Politico stuff is still a good opportunity to match talking points to see how close they are to effectively executing the DNC media marching orders. Politico is usually spot on.

My guess is that Politico isn't in the tank for Obama so much as it is working hard to get you and me to click on stories. Same as FoxNews.

More clicks, more advertising revenue - however it can get the job done.

Lies get you to click as much as the truth does, my guess is, so who needs "marching orders"? Getting you to believe that Obama is whatever they want you to believe is all that matters - just so you'll click again.

“It depends on how you term racist. It’s funny how racism has evolved in America. One hundred fifty years ago, a racist was a guy who said, ‘Yes, I am going to be keeping my slaves.’ One hundred years ago, racism was Jim Crow, somebody who believes that blacks perhaps should not be allowed to vote but they’re not for going all the way back to slavery. To me, where racism is today, it’s denying that racism exists. That, to me, is very racist. If you ask people on Planet Tea Bag what the problem is racially in America, it’s probably reverse racism,

Really Bill?

I'm on Planet Tea Bag. I think a big problem racially in America is when white poeple elect an unqualified, half black man to be president in times of trouble because they want to feel good about themselves.

I also think that it's a problem when obnoxious white liberal comics who support the half black guy think that because they bang black hookers and have black people on their lame TV show that they can stereotype black males as gun toting thugs ala Ice Cube in Boyz-n-the hood.

"I thought when we elected a black president we were going to get a black president. You know this is where I want real black president. I want him in a meeting with the BP CEO's, you know where he lifts up his shirt so they can see the gun in his pants. That's (in black man voice) We got a mutha-----ing problem here?"

Bill Maher, quoted May 2010

People might just think that's racist, but I guess you wouldn't term it that way, huh BIll?

What is POLITICO'S fascination with Bill Maher - it seems quite bizarre when we consider all the other 'entertainers' (to each his/her own' - we're not all weird), they have a fixation on this ugly smuck?! AND I CONTINUE TO THINK BILL THAT YOU ARE A RANK COWARD UNTIL YOU INVITE CLINT EASTWOOD ON YOUR SHOW AND CALL HIM AN ASS_OLE TO HIS FACE!! You're a brave guy when not in front of those you attack with your "wit".